Mr. DePelsMaeker was just 16 years old when he
left Belgium to come to the Unites States. He had boarded the Titanic in
Scotland to head to the States and a new life. Having come from a family
that was war torn and poor, he boarded the ship as a third class
passenger. Pernel's father, Mr. Joseph DePelsMaeker also came over to the
United States from Belgium but he spoke of Alphonse as he died when Joseph was
just six years old.

We do not know much of this side of the family as
Pernel's father did not speak a lot about their relatives from the old
country.